Creative machines: The next frontier for artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can solve routine tasks but still struggles to be creative or collaborate with us. Written May 2, 2016 1:30 PM by Vibeke Arildsen By Joel Lehman, Assitant Professor, and Sebastian Risi, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen Imagine if machines were as creative and as collaborative as humans. By working together with a creative computer intelligence, you might produce a beautiful piece of art in only a few hours. But even though artificial intelligence keeps improving, this dream is still far away. It turns out that teaching computer programs to play chess is much easier than teaching them to help us write symphonies. The current state of AIAI is in a boom. Companies like Google and Facebook have been buying up AI startups, hoping to use them to sell…